A remote, online, or managed backup service is a service that provides users with an online system for backing up and storing computer files
TUE 15 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity
MON 14 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
Hardware Security Module (HSM)
It is a plug-in card (PCI) or external device (RS232/SCSI/IP/USB/PCMCIA) for a general purpose computer and may even be an embedded system itself
WED 09 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data
FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
Biometrics (ancient Greek: bios life, metron measure) refers to two very different fields of study and application
FRI 27 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
They are servers that provide authentication services to users or other systems. Users and other servers authenticate to such a server, and receive cryptographic tickets
THU 26 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
Cross-site request forgery, also known as one click attack, sidejacking or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (Sea-Surf[1]) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of websites
WED 25 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
It is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of, and broker trust relationships between participants in a secure message exchange.
TUE 24 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is an anti-piracy system created by Microsoft that enforces Microsoft Windows online validation of the authenticity of several recent Microsoft operating systems when accessing several Microsoft Windows services, such as Windows Update, and downloading Windows components from the Microsoft Download Center.
MON 23 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) is a tool created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 14, 2007, which consists of a publicly searchable database that links millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses
FRI 20 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary